If the sea level rises, wouldnt that push the atmosphere up, and you'd gain those inches of height AGL? But this is over my head. I still have no idea how the ocean can rise much more in some places than others when water is fluid!
>From the comments it appears that a KR2 can expect a glide ratio of between 10:1 and 13:1 By my calculations, even losing the engine at a height of 2500 AGL, with 11:1 you can glide about 5 miles (assuming you're not between mountains) and that radius covers about 85 square miles to choose from! Pi*Rsq 5*5=25 25*3.14 = 85 At 5000ft AGL, you're looking at over 300 square miles to choose from. So it should not be hard to find a busy road to squeeze into the traffic flow on and make the 6 oclock news! On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 4:05 PM Mike Stirewalt via KRnet <krnet@list.krnet.org> wrote: > > > It just occurred to me that climate change will negatively affect our > ability to glide as far as we once were able to. Sea level rise . . . . > > Mike > KSEE > _______________________________________________ Search the KRnet Archives at https://www.mail-archive.com/krnet@list.krnet.org/. Please see LIST RULES and KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html. see http://list.krnet.org/mailman/listinfo/krnet_list.krnet.org to change options. To UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@list.krnet.org
